required fields an asterisks?

[Whitebat]

Hi that may be a dumb question but hopefully i will get an answer so i dont stay dumb lol.
i have several screens with required fields. But i cant find the command in the jsp code. so what is the command to do a required field with an * at the beginning? I know that the required thing might come out of my database but than the asterisk i have in front of my textfield should stand in the label but it doesnt. so i am confused. i couldnt find any significant difference between a required and nonrequired field. i know this is a confused explanation but maybe somebody is able to actually clue into what i mean.
Thanks for ur help

Thanks Whitebat

 

[bburn]

For me, to do an '*' is just using HTML to write out the '*'. Then, since it is a required field, & all these fields will need to be in a form, I use JavaScript functions to validate whether the fields are left empty or not.

For eg. in my HTML Form,

<FORM Name=&quot;myform&quot; method = &quot;Post&quot; onSubmit=&quot;return checkform()&quot;>
* Name : <INPUT TYPE=&quot;Text&quot; Name=&quot;Name&quot;>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=&quot;Submit&quot; Value=&quot;Submit&quot; />
</FORM>

Then in my JavaScript, I will have something like this,

function checkform() {

//only do the check for required field.
//if required field has no inputs, it pops out
//an alert box.
if (document.myform.Name.value = '') {
alert('Name is a required field!');
return false;
}

//if javascript can come here, it means that required
//field has inputs and will continue your form submission
return true;
}

Hope my explanation is what you are looking for...